Equality duties on education inspection
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Guidance on the education inspection approach to providers' and inspectors' duties under the Equality Act 2010.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance on the education inspection approach to providers' and inspectors' duties under the Equality Act 2010. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Providers' duties under the Equality Act
- 1. Prohibited conduct
- 2. Duty to make reasonable adjustments
- 3. Public sector equality duty (PSED) (where relevant)
- Inspectors' duties under the Equality Act
- 1. Prohibited conduct
- 2. Duty to make reasonable adjustments
- 3. Public sector equality duty (PSED)
- Evidence or allegations of discrimination and/or breaches of the Equality Act
- Specific circumstances where equalities must be considered in education settings
- Inspection focus on protected characteristics
- Inspection approach: Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act
Source and licence
Ofsted
AttributionOfsted, ‘Equality duties on education inspection’ (updated 5 November 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026